Can't Get Authorization Code

Hello ,

welcome to the forum 🙂

I understand you are following this guide https://docs.box.com/docs/oauth-20 and trying to authenticate with named users.

Have you followed all the steps indicated there? Can you share what you receive as a response?

Thank you

Thanks for your reply.

My first step is send a http get request to 

https://account.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=&redirect_uri=&state=>

with httpclient in Java,  my redirect_uri is https://app.box.com/, and I got a html page as reponse which

leads me to login as show below

I wonder whether this is the right reponse.

While, I tried to access box with my developer token which succeed, and now I'm not quite understand the difference between developer token and access token. Is developer token just used for tests?

Thank you very much~ 

Hello ,

yeah, that's right accordingly to https://developer.box.com/docs/oauth-20. As indicated: "After successfully entering their credentials, the user will be taken to a consent page, to authorize your application to access their account. After clicking either Grant or Deny, you’ll receive a response from Box, as outlined in the next section." 

So, you will receive an authorization code that is what your application will use.

Regards,

Thanks ,

I got the point, But what I really want is to get the authorization code directly for further use in my Java application. Could you give me some advice on how to realize it? and could you tell me more about the 

difference between the developer token and access token? 

Regards,

Hello ,

to be sincere, all development I have done has been based on Two-legged OAUTH with JWT and used App Users instead of Managed Users (https://developer.box.com/docs/app-auth)

Maybe that would suit better to you also 🙂

Regards

Thanks ,

I see. I will trun my focus on JWT.

Thanks for your kindness, I really appreciate it.

Regards

Hello !

a pleasure 😉

Regards